2010-2011+2nd+North+GA+RESA+Media+Consortium+Meeting

**Where:** Murray County High School 1001 Green Road Chatsworth, GA 30705 **Phone:** 706.695.1414 Getting there...[|click here] to go to mapquest
 * When:** November 11, 2010

Featuring Joy Huddlestun, "What's New in Sci-Fi and Fantasy" ([|PowerPoint]) Camille Ward, 2010 Georgia Exemplary Middle School Program (Freedom MS)  Courtney McGough, [|"Galileo's Georgia Authors"]


 * [|Google Presentation Slides from Meeting]**
 * [|Collaboration Corner Notes]**

Copyright & Creative Commons [|Flickr's Creative Commons] [|Copyright Alliance Education Foundation] (Free materials--posters, brochures, etc.) [|Copyright Images: Flickr & PicasaWeb] by Esther Brenneman

GaDOE Literacy Team will provide onsite training on K-8 literacy topics (phonological awareness, phonics, word study, vocabulary, comprehension, DIBELS, etc. Free materials are available. Contact Julie Morrill (jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us)
 * Professional Learning Opportunities**


 * Open Source & Freeware **

[|GoogleDocs] [|OpenOffice] [|AbiWord]
 * Office Productivity Packages (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.)**

[|PhotoStory] [|Picasa] (with Web Albums, movie maker, blogging, and more) [| Prezi] [|SlideShare] [|Animoto] [|Tech & Learning's Top 10 Slideshow Tools]
 * Presentations & Storytelling**

[|Audacity] is a great audio recorder/editor. Download it, then download [|LAME] to convert your audio to MP3 format.
 * Audio**

[|SignAppNow] (The notepad passed around the department goes electronic.) [|Goo.gl] (Google's URL shortener saves your URLs so that you can use the same one and track usage w/your login) [|Evernote] (Save anything from any device. Indexed.) [|Instant Chan] (Break up the drama with Instant Chan.)
 * Life Made Easier**

[|Pecha-Kucha Presentation] 20 PowerPoint slides and 20 seconds per slide to speak. Slides are set to transition automatically. ("puh-chatch-kuh"). Clubs throughout the world meet for Pecha-Kucha events.
 * Innovative Designs**

[|Merlot]
 * General Open Source/Free Resources**

Miscellaneous Resources

[|Tech & Learning's Top 10 YouTube Channels]

[|New Georgia Encyclopedia Survey]. Give your suggestions on improving NGE.

[|GALILEO Survey]. Give your input on GALILEO.

[|Internet Public Library's 15 Things]. IPL's favorite technologies.

[|Out of Print Clothing]. Fashions feature out-of-print book covers.

Build a Potato Book Promotion

Annette Lamb's Websites (Eduscapes.com, [|Classrooms in the Cloud], etc.)

[|The Scholastic.com Bulletin Board]

[|AdLit.org Author Interviews]

[|Taylor Mali "I'll Fight You for the Library"] (YouTube video)

[|"New Spice"] (YouTube video)

[|Edutopia Summer Rejuvenation Guide 2010]